Hall-of-Fame Promoter Wilfried Sauerland has postponed King Arthur´s departure to the USA since Dan Goossen and the Californian Boxing Commission have failed to take action in the row over the officials.

WBA/IBA Light Heavyweight Champion Beibut Shumenov remains fully prepared to continue his history-making journey to unify the light heavyweight titles before the end of 2011 with one of the other 175-pound division world champions.

By Derek Bonnett: The theme for this week’s boxing action is "New Faces" as four previously unranked fighters climbed aboard SecondOut’s top ten lists. Regrettably, Denis Boytsov, Andy Lee, Juan Carlos Burgos and Edrin Dapudong had to say goodbye to top ten honors for now. It was a week of big time KOs and questionable scoring, so the work of professional prizefighting marches into April without much of a change.

Super Six World Boxing Classic Semi finalists Andre Ward and Arthur Abraham participated in a press conference on Tuesday at Sisley Italian Kitchen in Sherman Oaks, Calif., to formally announce their May 14 showdown at The Home Depot Center in Carson, Calif.

By Dmytro Mossienko: Ukraine’s world heavyweight champions Vitali and Wladimir Klitschko received national award "The Pride of Ukraine" during the official ceremony for the Person of the year 2010, held in the capital of Kyiv on March 26, 2011.

By Lwazi Ndzobongo: On Saturday night at Emperors Palace at Kempton Park, Gauteng, South Africa, Thomas Oosthuizen won the IBO Super Middleweight title by stopping Colombian Evert Bravo at 2 .34 seconds in the ninth round.

By Peter Lerner: It’s finally official that one of the most eagerly awaited all-Italian fights of recent years will finally take place. Ex-Olympian and world bronze medallist Leonard Bundu and Daniele Petrucci – both undefeated – will meet for the vacant European welterweight title.

By Peter Lerner: Vinny Maddalone is so big he could pick up an average-sized man and snap him in two. Emanuele Della Rosa is not averse to putting the odd wrestling throw or headbutt into his combinations.

Heavyweight contender Tomaz Adamek believes boxing fans will witness a bigger, stronger and faster fighter when he faces Irishman Kevin McBride at the Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey, USA on April 9.

Four days after the dramatic ending of the WBC world heavyweight championship fight between Odlanier Solis and champion Vitali Klitschko and the controversial discussions regarding the result, promoter Ahmet Oner apologized for his behavior at the press conference after the fight.

IBF Middleweight Champion Sebastian Sylvester (34-3-1, 16 KOs) will return to the ring on May 7 when he defends his title against mandatory challenger Daniel Geale (24-1, 15 KOs) in Neubrandenburg, Germany.

By Jason Pribila: Boxing fans again filled the Bell Centre in Montreal, Quebec, Canada to cheer on their adopted son, Lucian Bute, as he stopped Brian Magee on Saturday Night. Bute again impressed in what should be the final tune up before facing the division’s elite.

Vitali Klitschko took just one round to beat the previously undefeated Odlanier Solis at the Lanxess Arena in Cologne, Germany on Saturday night. A well timed straight right hand put Solis down at the end of round one.

When Lucian Bute makes the seventh defence of his IBF super-middleweight title against Ireland’s Brian Magee at the Bell Center in Montreal, Canada on Saturday night the undefeated 31 year-old will be hoping to put in another impressive performance in front of his loyal local following.

Jonathan Barros made a successful first defence of his WBA featherweight title with a routine 12 round unanimous decision win over Miguel Roman at the Polideportivo La Colonia, Junin, in Mendoza, Argentina on Saturday night.

By Peter Lerner in Italy: On Friday night in Ceccano, a small town tucked away under the low mountains that lead from Rome down towards Naples, Samuele Esposito made a successful first defence of his Italian light welterweight title, stopping challenger Marino Bucciarelli in the fourth round.

On April 2, Marco Huck will return to the place where he celebrated the biggest success of his career. The 26-year-old will defend his WBO Cruiserweight Title at the Gerry Weber Stadium in Halle, Germany, taking on former WBC champion Giacobbe Fragomeni.

By Derek Bonnett: On Friday, February 11, at World Memorial Hall in Kobe, Hyogo, Japan, Kazuto Ioka stopped Oleydong Sithsamerchai in five rounds to capture the WBC 105 pound title. The battle of undefeated ended with Sithsamerchai hitting the canvas in the second and fifth rounds. Ioka improved his record to 7-0 (5). Sithsamerchai tasted defeat for the first time.

The WBC Middleweight Championship showdown between Sergio Martinez and Sergiy Dzinziruk was formally announced today (Feb 9) at a kick-off press conference from the BB King Blues Club in Times Square. Also in attendance were Andy Lee and Craig McEwan who will battle on the undercard.

In reponse to the recent announcement that the WBC super welterweight title is now vacant, the WBC received a nice letter from former champion Manny Pacquiao stating that he will no longer fight at that weight, and that in the future he expects to fight only at 147 pounds and hopes and expects to someday fight for the WBC world title at that weight.

Mexican Tomas Rojas successfully defended his WBC super-flyweight title for the first time by taking a unanimous 12 round points decision over Nobo Nashiro at the Prefectural Gym in Osaka, Japan on Saturday.

By Lwazi Ndzobongo at ringside: Nkosinathi Joyi retained his IBF Mini Flyweight Title via a no contest decision against Katsunari Takayama at the Big Top Arena in Carnival City, South Africa on Saturday night

By Lwazi Ndzobongo at ringside: Gideon Buthelezi counterpunched his way to the IBO Junior Flyweight Title via split decision over Hekkie Budler. Buthelezi won by scores of 118-114, 115-113 and 113-117 at Emperors Palace in Kempton Park, south Africa on Thursday.

By Teddy Stenmark:Team Sauerland is according to a story in Danish tabloid Ekstra Bladet, working seriously on putting together a fight between German WBO-champion, Robert Stieglitz and Danish ex-World champion, Mikkel Kessler in June, in Denmark.

WBC heavyweight champion had nothing but respect when he came face to face with undefeated Cuban challenger Odlanier Solis at today’s press conference to publicise their March 19 showdown at Germany’s biggest indoor arena (Lanxess Arena) in Cologne.

Polish boxing hero Tomasz Adamek is set to challenge either IBF/WBO heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko or elder brother and WBC titleholder Vitali Klitschko. An announcement is expected to in the next few weeks.

WBA/IBA Light Heavyweight Champion Beibut Shumenov successfully defended his world titles for the second time, stopping three-time world champion William Joppy in the sixth round, tonight in front of a packed house at the Ice Mansion in Shymkent, Kazakhstan.

An upset and disappointed WBA/IBA Light Heavyweight Champion Beibut Shumenov was in near shock to learn that his scheduled unification fight against WBO titlist Juergen Braehmer, this Saturday has been cancelled.

By Damrong Simakajornboon: WBC/WBO#2 featherweight Chonlatarn Or Piriyapinyo successfully kept his WBO Asia-Pacific 126lb title as he scored a fifth round TKO over Masayuki Wakimoto on Wednesday at Wat Kaodin in Doembangnangbuat, Suphanburi, Thailand.

By Paul Upham: If you are looking for something a little different in a boxing book “BOX – The Face of Boxing” by Holger Keifel and Thomas Hauser may well be exactly what you are looking for. The 198 page hardcover books serves as an amazing tour of the faces of big time boxing from around the world.

By Paul Upham: Former undisputed super flyweight boxing world champion Vic Darchinyan will get the chance to move forward from his controversial points loss to Abner Mares, when he faces former world champion Yonnhy Perez in 2011 in stage 2 of Showtime’s bantamweight tournament.

Following his brave but painful ninth round tko defeat to Juan Manuel Marquez back in November, Australian Michael Katsidis is ready to return to he ring-and is targeting WBA junior-welterweight champion Amir Khan as a possible opponent.

By Paul Upham: One of the worlds’ leading boxing historians, Arnold Thomas is the curator of the Australian National Boxing Hall of Fame exhibition at the National Sports Museum in the Melbourne Cricket Ground. His second book “Where Warriors Rest” is evidence of the thousands of hours of research Thomas has spent locating the finer details about thousands of boxers worldwide.

By Jerry Glick: Congratulations go out to Showtime. The American TV network played a huge part in the health of the sport of boxing in 2010, thereby building boxing up in the eyes of the public. With fine matches and two tournaments to spike interest, they certainly deserved to win SecondsOut’s Services to Boxing Award for 2010.

By Paul Upham: Australian boxing lost one of its most loyal servants when Gus Mercurio passed away on 7 December 2010. The popular actor, boxing referee & ringside judge died in Epworth Hospital in Brighton, Victoria, during surgery for a heart aneurism, aged 82. He was laid to rest at Diamond Creek in Melbourne on 20 December 2010.

By Tri Nguyen: Upon further review, the Worst Decision of 2010 may not have been so bad after all. Beibut Shumenov was one of the hottest prospects in boxing. He had a solid amateur pedigree, representing Kazakhstan in the 2004 Olympic games and beating some recognizable names early in his career, including Montell Griffin and Donnell Wiggins. He was destined for stardom, so it seemed. But then he lost a close decision to Gabriel Campillo August 15, 2009. So close that everyone was screaming

It is that time of the year again. The time for SecondsOut’s loyal and merry band of writers to vote for both their best and worst moments of 2010. Over the next eight days we will be revealing all the SecondsOut award winners. Our 10th annual awards gets underway today with SecondsOut’s Andrew Wake revealing our Knockout of the Year winner.

By Teddy Stenmark: It is being reported in Swedish press that Former Olympian and US National Golden Gloves champion, middleweight Naim Terbunja has signed a professional contract with American manager Al Haymon.